TY - GEN
T1 - Large mode area fibre designs for micro-machining applications
AU - Alvarez-Chavez, J. A.
AU - Martinez-Piñon, F.
AU - Wirth, C.
AU - Schreiber, T.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - High power, high-energy, rare-earth-doped fiber laser sources are now considered a suitable option for a number of applications in Medicine, Telecom, LIDAR and industrial applications. Regarding the generation of high-energy pulses, there is a compromise between gain volume and M2 value or beam parameter product for the generation of pulses with useful energy content, for the aforementioned applications and good pulse shape and even a Gaussian output. In this paper, we will present a set of large mode area fiber designs along with full optical characterization data will be presented. Results on energy per pulse from 4 to 20KHz repetition rate and up to 1.3mJ energy for a 350um inner cladding LMA fiber will be discussed among other fiber designs. All fibres were made from proprietary procedures and will be employed in micro-machining applications such as metal deposition in applications where laser-assisted cold spraying processes are used. A full review of our LMA fibre designs will be presented.
AB - High power, high-energy, rare-earth-doped fiber laser sources are now considered a suitable option for a number of applications in Medicine, Telecom, LIDAR and industrial applications. Regarding the generation of high-energy pulses, there is a compromise between gain volume and M2 value or beam parameter product for the generation of pulses with useful energy content, for the aforementioned applications and good pulse shape and even a Gaussian output. In this paper, we will present a set of large mode area fiber designs along with full optical characterization data will be presented. Results on energy per pulse from 4 to 20KHz repetition rate and up to 1.3mJ energy for a 350um inner cladding LMA fiber will be discussed among other fiber designs. All fibres were made from proprietary procedures and will be employed in micro-machining applications such as metal deposition in applications where laser-assisted cold spraying processes are used. A full review of our LMA fibre designs will be presented.
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U2 - 10.1117/12.862818
DO - 10.1117/12.862818
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:79953109369
SN - 9780819483607
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications, WSOF-2
T2 - 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications, WSOF-2
Y2 - 13 October 2010 through 15 October 2010
ER -